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Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Best friends Fiction Best friends Juvenile fiction Deception Fiction East Indian Americans Fiction Homophobia Fiction Lesbian teenagers Fiction Social media Fiction Teenagers Sexual behavior Fiction Young adult fictionLinke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINGreen, Shari
Summary: A story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Can Pua the pig stop Heihei the rooster from causing trouble for Moana at the island feast?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "She may be a California farm girl, but seventeen-year-old Maya's vision board is all about Fashion and Fierce--the New York City women's magazine she's been reading since she was ten. As the oldest daughter of Punjabi garlic farmers, though, Maya's path is set, and it's off to Cow camp for the summer. When she lands in the New York City area, Maya learns that her cousin's girlfriend works at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHAThomas, Leah
Summary: Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC THOHudson, Genevieve (Genevieve Katherine)
Summary: "A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new 'home' - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion--seemingly intertwined--permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUDWeingarten, Lynn
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEIRuge, Eugen
Summary: An enthralling story of an East German family through the long years of communism and its aftermath, this novel flows both back and forth in time, creating a panoramic view of a family's saga and a country that has vanished into memory and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGWebster, Christy
Summary: Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo love battling bad guys ... until an unstoppable force emerges from deep beneath New York City. Have the Turtles finally met their match?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: "From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURSmith, Wilbur A.
Summary: On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soon finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan to wipe out the British forces in Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SMIRivers, Francine
Summary: Atretes, German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness ... but his life is changed forever when he learns his son is alive. Atretes vows to find his son and return to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the young widow who adopted his abandoned baby. But Atretes is undaunted. One woman should be no trouble at all. It doesn't take him long to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivDasGupta, Sayantani
Summary: Teenage sisters Eila and Mallika Das are attending a summer camp where the campers are trying out for minor parts in a romance/detective television show set in Regency times--but when Eila meets the handsome Rahul it is clear that there is plenty of drama to be had outside of the screenplay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASTrentmann, Frank
Summary: "A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from the Second World War to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSFalkner, Brian
Summary: In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FALGottfred, B. T.
Summary: Everyone, including Zee's classmates, gym buddies, and even her so-called best friend assume that she is a lesbian. Everyone who takes a look at Art's nice clothes and pretty face assume that he is gay. But there is more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. What develops is a powerful connection between two people who are beautiful in all the ways they've been told are strange. As they explore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOTIturbe, Antonio
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ItuPalacio, R. J.
Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Palacio 2019Chanani, Nidhi
Summary: Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she finds a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHAGrass, Günter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: In the aftermath of World War II, Susanne Wallner returns from a concentration camp to find that her Berlin apartment is occupied by Dr. Hans Mertens, a former officer in the German army who has been severely traumatized by the atrocities perpetrated by his superiors. The unlikely pair form a delicate friendship as they struggle to restore some normalcy to their hellishly bleak existence. By...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International in association with the University of Massachusetts, c1999. 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MURKannan, Malavika
Summary: Sixteen-year-old queer Indian American, Maya, who falls for her white, wealthy, and complicated female classmate, Juneau, is asked to join a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KANFaruqi, Reem
Summary: Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Carman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2015